Thursday, December 26, 2013

Las Vegas Cabbie returns 300k USD

An unidentified 28-year-old poker player left behind $300,000 in cash in a brown-paper bag when he exited a Las Vegas taxi earlier this week, and the cabbie, upon discovering it was not, as he’d suspected, a bag of chocolates, but was a bag full of money, decided to return the money to its rightful owner. He said he had no thought of the splashy holiday gifts or life-changing investments that the money could have bought.
The taxi driver enlisted a subsequent fare as witness and called his Yellow Checker Star dispatcher with the news. Every penny — or, more accurately, every $100 bill — was, after verifying its origin, returned to the poker pro.

Gerardo Gamboa
“My dignity is not for sale,” Gerardo Gamboa said, according to CNN, “and that’s the way I am.”
Speaking with CNN affiliates KLAS and KVVU, Gamboa said he hoped his good deed would do good things for two reputations often seen as in need of some, if not redemption, than at least some good P.R.:
Taxi drivers:
“[T]his is the only chance I have to show cab drivers in Las Vegas are not bad people.”
And Vegas:
“They call [Las Vegas] ‘Sin City,’ but it’s not — it’s angel city.”

For his efforts, Gamboa was awarded $1,000 by Yellow Checker Star, which honored him as its driver of the year, and a voucher for a steak dinner for two. [marketwatch.com]

This man deserved a lot of respect for what he has done, if you look at the world around you, how a lot of people fight over even few tens, hundreds, you will realized the magnitude of how much good he has done. We need to learn from his deed.

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